For years on out historians fought over what Lincoln would write and say. Although there exists two drafts of the Gettysburg address there's been debates on what Lincoln really did say. In Gabor Borrit, book concerning the Gettysburg address, he points out, that there was a difference between what people heard and what's was a being reported. For example, in Centraila Sentinel, they reported the speech to start with " ninety years ago". Another argument was over weather Lincoln said ' conceived in Liberty" or " concentrated to liberty" in the Gettysburg Address. The obsession over Lincoln's language is because the belief the he was somewhat semi-divine due to his influence on history. Gopnik compares Lincoln to Jesus, who were both short lived humans. Like Jesus people have tried to find the true meaning of Lincoln's words. According to Gopnik, Lincoln is a man full of words and that his language is bigger than any other. His words are very " rhetoric" meaning that it's not of what he says but the style he says it
For years on out historians fought over what Lincoln would write and say. Although there exists two drafts of the Gettysburg address there's been debates on what Lincoln really did say. In Gabor Borrit, book concerning the Gettysburg address, he points out, that there was a difference between what people heard and what's was a being reported. For example, in Centraila Sentinel, they reported the speech to start with " ninety years ago". Another argument was over weather Lincoln said ' conceived in Liberty" or " concentrated to liberty" in the Gettysburg Address. The obsession over Lincoln's language is because the belief the he was somewhat semi-divine due to his influence on history. Gopnik compares Lincoln to Jesus, who were both short lived humans. Like Jesus people have tried to find the true meaning of Lincoln's words. According to Gopnik, Lincoln is a man full of words and that his language is bigger than any other. His words are very " rhetoric" meaning that it's not of what he says but the style he says it